Topic: Very Slow samba browsing with windows 2000 root share

[lightman]

Hi all
I'm a little lost with this problem, When I browse the root of any ibay with
a considerable amount of files, the windows 2000 machine freezes for about
20 seconds!!!, the weird thing is that, it doesn't happens with 98 and ME
clients, they browse the whole pretty fast.

Tried the registry patch recommended in the thread "Slow SAMBA response with WinXP client" but It does not solve the problem, it still deadly slow.

However if I enter another directory, not the root of the ibay, everything works
allright, for example I have an ibay named Zone, if  I map Zone in W2000 to
a drive letter and enter it, it dies for 20 minutes and also the share show a X
like if weren't available, but if I go to Zone/data for example, inside data and
below, its fast.

I'm using SME 5.0, any ideas of what can be wrong?, it looks to me like if
w2000 tries to count all files and available space remaining and since the
share is too big it tooks a lots of time (I suppose this, don't know if I'm right)
but that does not explains why the share appears with a red X on it.

Any ideas, specially if I don't have to change to SME 5.5 would be better

thanks in advance.

Lightman

[Mark]

what version of samba are you running - it may be worth upgrading to 2.2.7a - there are rpms available at myezserver.com (thanks Darryl)

cheers

Mark

[Charlie Brady]

Mark wrote:
 
> what version of samba are you running - it may be worth
> upgrading to 2.2.7a - there are rpms available at
> myezserver.com (thanks Darryl)

Darrell has 2.2.7 RPMs at his site. The 2.2.7a RPMs were built by me, and can be found at:

ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/CharlieBrady/RPMS/i386

and various mirror sites.

Regards

Charlie

[Lightman]

Hi Mark and Charlie Brady

Thanks a lot for your reply, I can see in the FTP three files
samba, samba-client and samba-common, should I install
the three of them?, in a particular order?.

any other library is required to work?, or just these three ones?.

Thanks a lot!

BTW: do you think that this would solve the problem I was talking
about?.

Lightman

[Charlie Brady]

Lightman wrote:

> Thanks a lot for your reply, I can see in the FTP three files
> samba, samba-client and samba-common, should I install
> the three of them?

Yes - or perhaps no, since you are using version 5.0. These were built for 5.5/5.6. 5.0 is now very old.

>, in a particular order?.

All together.

C=ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib
I=$C/CharlieBrady/RPMS/i386
rpm -Uhv $I/samba-2.2.7a-1es1.i386.rpm \
$I/samba-client-2.2.7a-1es1.i386.rpm \
$I/samba-common-2.2.7a-1es1.i386.rpm \

> any other library is required to work?, or just these three
> ones?.

Just those.

> BTW: do you think that this would solve the problem I was
> talking about?.

I don't know that much about the various bugs in different versions of Windows

Regards

Charlie

[Lightman]

Hi Charly Brady

Thanks a lot for your reply.

I did what you suggest, however when tried to instal the first package
it says that couldn't find dependences of samba-common

so I tried to instal samba-common first instead, but it says that
couldn't find the dependences for samba-client, and again tried to install
samba-client first, and then, says, couldn't find dependences for
samba.
hehehehe, that was very funny, may be this was done for a newer e-smith version.

As I cannot see another option, I upgrade to version 5.5, I still can't
believe that after upgrade EVERYTHING WORKS!!!, PERFECTLY!
only minor changes were necessary, all customizations done by
myself, amazing the upgrade, if I knew that it would be
so easy and trouble free, I would upgrade a long time ago ))

Now works everything excellent, Win 2000 machines browse in the
same way that 98 and ME ones, It seems that 5.5 already have a newer
version of samba built in.

so, problem solved by the upgrade itself

again thanks a lot for take the time to answer me and help me

see you
Lightman

[peter]

I had this problem in 2001, (win2k plus e-smith server) and found the following at this site: http://www.ntfaq.com/

As far as I remember it solved the problem.

Q. Why is viewing Windows Me or Windows 98 shares from a Windows 2000 machine so slow?

A. When Win2K attempts to browse shares on a Windows Me or Win9x machine, it also checks for scheduled tasks that are enabled on the machine. Disabling this check speeds the browsing. Perform the following steps:

Start regedit.exe.
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace.
Right-click {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}, and select Delete.
Click Yes to the confirmation.
Close regedit.